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Attachment of HeT-A sequences to chromosomal termini in Drosophila melanogaster may occur by different mechanisms.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Oct 2000
Kahn T, Savitsky M, Georgiev P
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila telomeres contain arrays of the retrotransposonlike elements HeT-A and TART. Their transposition to broken chromosomal termini has been implicated in chromosome healing and telomere elongation. The HeT-A element is attached by its 3' end, which contains the promoter. To monitor the behavior of HeT-A elements, we used the yellow gene with terminal deficiencies consisting of breaks in the yellow promoter...
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